Capital Reviews

 Cyberpunk: Edgerunners [anime] MAN, EVERYTHING STUDIO TRIGGER DOES IS ALWAYS AMAZING AND FOR THE FIRST 60% OF THIS THAT INCLUDES THIS, BUT GOD THIS GOES OFF A CLIFF AFTER THE TIME SKIP. I GET THE GENERAL SHAPE OF THE STORY THEY WERE GOING FOR, BUT IT JUST FEELS LIKE IT LOST EVERYTHING THAT WAS MAKING IT GOOD AND EVERYTHING GOT WAY DUMBER AND WORSE. IT IS KINDA NICE THAT THIS FOREVER WILL BE A GOOD EXAMPLE FOR WHEN PEOPLE ASK TO THINK OF LIKE, A STORY WHERE THE CHOSEN ONE TURNS OUT TO NOT BE, OR SOMETHING. IT JUST DOESN'T FEEL LIKE IT HAD A GOOD STORY ARC FOR DAVID THOUGH, LIKE, IT'S NOT A RISE AND FALL THAT FELT LIKE IT WAS FOR ANY REASON. I DON'T KNOW. C- PS. I ACCEPT THE WEIRD DOUBLE TALK ON THE PHONE CALLS IS SOME CYBERTECH THING, THAT FEELS LIKE OKAY WORLD BUILDING BUT I HATE HOW SPORADIC IT WAS. KIWI DID IT ALL THE TIME BUT THEN IT FEELS LIKE THEY ONLY REMEMBERED ABOUT IT IN THE SECOND TO LAST EPISODE AND SUDDENLY EVERYONE WAS DOING IT. 

 The Invincible [book, audiobook] THIS BOOK IS REALLY NEAT. LIKE, PLOT WISE IT'S SOME PRETTY STANDARD SCI-FI. THE GENERAL FRAMEWORK WOULD FIT PRETTY WELL AS AN ORIGINAL STAR TREK EPISODE. BUT IT WAS WRITTEN IN 1962 AND JUST ABSOLUTELY FULL OF SCI-FI CONCEPTS THAT THIS WAS THE FIRST, OR NEARLY THE FIRST, BOOK TO EVER COME UP WITH.  IT'S REALLY INTERESTING TO READ, A LOT OF THE IDEAS ARE MORE OR LESS NOTHING NOW AND NOT A BIG DEAL, BUT IT'S NEAT, A LOT OF SCI-FI PREDICTS FUTURE REAL THINGS, BUT THIS BOOK LIKE, PREDICTS THINGS THAT ARE SCI-FI, BUT WELL BEFORE SCI-FI THOUGHT OF THEM.  PS. THIS IS A GOOD BOOK FOR "TRANSLATED BOOK" BECAUSE I AM SURE THE CONSTANT USE OF THE PREFIX "NECRO" TO MEAN "UNLIVING" SOUNDS RIGHT IN POLISH BUT MAKES EVERYTHING NEEDLESSLY AND HILARIOUSLY BADASS SOUNDING WHEN PEOPLE ARE TALKING ABOUT NECROBIOLOGY AND THE NECROSPHERE ALL THE TIME FOR THINGS NOT NEARLY THAT DRAMATIC.

 Astroboy [movie] I WATCHED THIS BECAUSE IT WAS ON SOME LIST OF 'LESSER APPRECIATED NICK CAGE MOVIES" OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT, AND YEAH. IT'S FUNNY, THIS ISN'T REALLY ANY DIFFERENT THAN THE ASTRO BOY ORIGIN STORY EVER IS, BUT IT BEING NICK CAGE MAKES IT SO BRUTAL SEEMING. ALSO, YOU REALLY THINK WITH THE WHOLE THING OF THE CORES ABSORBING PEOPLE THAT WOULD BE A SETUP FOR THE BLUE CORE TO ABSORB TOBY TO SAVE HIM FROM THE RED CORE, TO JUSTIFY ASTROBOY, BUT NOPE, THEY JUST SUPER KILL TOBY RIGHT OUT. KABLAMO! PS. ALSO INSTEAD OF DOING AN ASTROBOY STORY THE STORY IS JUST SORT OF KIND OF BATTLE ANGEL FOR KIDS? WHAT? 

 The Illumination [book, audiobook] THIS BOOK IS REALLY BEAUTIFUL. THE BASE PREMISE IS JUST ONE DAY PAIN STARTS INHERENTLY GIVING OFF LIGHT. BUT WHY IT'S GOOD IS HOW MUCH THE BOOK THEN IS ONLY EVER TANGENTIALLY ABOUT THAT AND IS REALLY THE STORY OF A SERIES OF PEOPLE WHO OWN A DIARY OF LOVE NOTES THAT KEEPS PASSING AROUND. THERE IS VERY FEW PLOT POINTS THAT REQUIRE PAIN TO BE GIVING OFF LIGHT BUT IT JUST IS SO WELL WRITTEN AS A BACKDROP. I LOVE HOW SMALL SCALE THE STORIES ARE, THE AUTHOR HAVING A HORRIBLE BUT VERY TRIVIAL ILLNESS FITS THE BOOK SO WELL. ALSO I REALLY DO LIKE HOW MUCH EVERYONE'S ENTIRE LIFE IS DRIVEN BY HEARING OR MISHEARING A PHRASE THEN HAVING THAT SET OF WORDS DRIVE THEIR ENTIRE LIFE FOREVER.  PS. OOF THOUGH, PEOPLE COMPLAINED ABOUT THE ENDING AND READING THE LAST CHAPTER I WASN'T GETTING WHAT THE BIG DEAL IS. THE LAST CHARACTER WAS ONE OF THE BEST ONES. BUT MAN, WHAT A GARBAGE LAST PAGE.  IT'S NOT EVEN THAT IT'S AN UNHAPPY ABRUPT ENDING. A BIG THE

Ironcast [game] I FEEL LIKE AT SOME POINT AN EVOLUTIONARY SPLIT HAPPENED, WHERE THERE WAS A GENRE OF LIKE, MATCH 3/SOLITAIRE/PIXEL HUNT/ETC GAMES MADE WITH VICTORIAN ENGLAND STYLING THAT WERE NOT MADE FOR 'GAMERS" AND GET NO ATTENTION FROM TRADITIONAL GAMERS (READ: THESE ARE GAMES MADE FOR WOMEN) AND WHEN THE SPLIT HAPPENED THEY WERE KINDA BAD GAMES, BUT LIKE 20 YEARS LATER THERE IS THIS WEIRD THING WHERE THERE IS A BUNCH OF WEIRDLY GOOD GAMES LIKE THAT THAT SEEM TO NOT EXIST ANYWHERE IN LIKE, 'THE CONVERSATION' ABOUT GAMES. AND LIKE, THIS GAME ISN'T PERFECT, IT'S JUST A TILE MATCHING GAME WHERE YOU FIGHT ROBOTS IN STEAM PUNK ENGLAND, BUT LIKE, IT'S WEIRDLY SO MUCH MORE BETTER THAN IT FEELS LIKE IT NEEDS TO BE.  PS. ON THE OTHER HAND IT'S A WEIRD ROUGE LIKE WHERE EVERY RUN TAKES LIKE 3 HOURS AND IS FAIRLY HARD, I ENDED UP BUYING THE DLC JUST BECAUSE THE DLC CHARACTERS ARE STRONGER AND I WAS PLAYING THIS GAME OBSESSIVELY TRYING TO JUST FINISH IT ONCE, BU

 Sing 2 [movie] I FEEL LIKE THIS MOVIE REALLY RUBBED ME THE WRONG WAY.  I TOLD MY NEICE IT WAS A MOVIE FOR "TRASHY KIDS" AND I CAN NOT BACK UP THIS CLAIM BUT IT FEELS TRUE. (I LIKE THAT EVERYONE GOT A SPECIES APPROPRIATE DATE BUT THE GORILLA'S SPECIES WAS 'BRITISH') PS. WHY DID THEY KEEP BERATING THEM FROM BEING FROM A SMALL TOWN? THEY WERE IN FANTASY ANIMAL LA IN THE FIRST MOVIE.